Hopefully Lakers can be the 8th seed, and make the playoffs. I'm a Knicks fan watching my team fall apart. With that said, my favorite player is KOBE. I enjoy the way he plays the game, especially in crunch time. Good luck Laker fans.

Kind of expected him to play, but think he'd be better off resting a game. If he does play tonight, I think he should rest one of the games next week or at least play limited minutes....doubt that happens though.

At least it wasnt a season ending injury, torn ACL Kobe caused Rubio last season

Complete rubbish! Rubio's injury occurred as he was trying to stop. Kobe does not make contact with Rubio's knee....and why would Kobe want to bang knees with Rubio anyhow.

As far as throwing his leg during shots, well Kobe does not do that to draw fouls if that's what you're implying. They don't call that anymore, but even when they did, I can't recall of a single instance where Kobe drew a foul in that manner.

Throwing of the leg is more of his natural shooting motion. In the third quarter of that game, he did it multiple times. This doesn't mean that he's trying to create space....if you glance threw youtube, I'm sure you'll find plenty of instances when Kobe's leg comes up with the defender no where to be found.

Now is that a foul on Kobe? It's not called so it doesn't really matter. If they did call that on Kobe, I'm sure he'd reform nice and quick.

I am in no way shape or form a Lakers fan...never have...never will be but DAMN, I gave them 0% chance of straight up beating the Pacers today especially in Indiana. Mainly because it's hard to win in Indiana and Kobe wasn't ruled out before game time.

That and I saw the Pacers had a W, L, W, L trend going on and tonight they were due for a L, but that shit's all superstition lol

Didn't watch the game, but some one must have stepped up...when a superstar is out it always seems like the bench or some unknown steps up and has a killer game. If Kobe played the whole game I highly doubt the Lakers would have come out with a W tonight.

Complete rubbish! Rubio's injury occurred as he was trying to stop. Kobe does not make contact with Rubio's knee....and why would Kobe want to bang knees with Rubio anyhow.

As far as throwing his leg during shots, well Kobe does not do that to draw fouls if that's what you're implying. They don't call that anymore, but even when they did, I can't recall of a single instance where Kobe drew a foul in that manner.

Throwing of the leg is more of his natural shooting motion. In the third quarter of that game, he did it multiple times. This doesn't mean that he's trying to create space....if you glance threw youtube, I'm sure you'll find plenty of instances when Kobe's leg comes up with the defender no where to be found.

Now is that a foul on Kobe? It's not called so it doesn't really matter. If they did call that on Kobe, I'm sure he'd reform nice and quick.